"Your Weapon Is Your Mind" is a free vet-run support squad for Combat Vets in Denver near CO Blvd & Yale. I offer a confidential, supportive environment for combat vets to find the camaraderie they long for now that they're no longer down range. As a vet who works in mental health, I understand what sacrificing for your country means, and I can bring a unique set of skills to the table to dismantle the barriers keeping veterans from living life to the fullest. During war, service members rely on each other for protection and support, and that should not end after discharge. This group meets every other Wednesday from 1800-2000 starting 9/21/2016. I'd like to talk to the vet before they attend to make sure it's a good fit for them; they can call me or I can call them. I'm willing to meet in person too. YourWeaponIsYourMind@gmail.com

Richard De La Garza provides thoughtful and professional mental health support, focusing on trauma, anxiety, depression, and personal growth. The practice takes a balanced approach that combines structure with compassion, helping individuals work through challenges with clarity and confidence. With experience supporting veterans and diverse communities, the practice offers trauma therapy in San Diego, along with specialized support for veterans, PTSD, anger management, and major life transitions. Each session is tailored to meet individual needs in a way that feels practical, respectful, and supportive. The aim is to create a comfortable space where clients can feel understood, build confidence, and make meaningful progress over time.

Bringing a unique & colorful range of education and work experience, I am a mission-driven, lifelong advocate of egalitarian psychiatric rehabilitation. I use techniques, philosophies, and practices from around the world along with common sense from years of working in many different roles to provide clients with personalized and nuanced psychotherapy. I help people move toward their own "self-actualization", wherever they may be. I have worked with people experiencing severe mental illness, people working through criminal sentencing, and the general population. I keep a meditation practice and offer therapy-integrated and/or standalone certified mindfulness/meditation instruction. I have an innate capacity to see and connect with people struggling in difficult places; I meet and understand people no matter who or where they are in life.

I am honored to work with clients who want to study themselves and grow, and I know that healing, insight and change are possible. Healing begins with awareness of your thoughts, feelings and emotions. Transformation begins with the discovery of the underlying core beliefs that determine how your world is perceived. Transformation is possible in the context of safe and supportive relationships. It is my intention to create an environment that is mindful and compassionate, while actively and skillfully assisting you in your healing process. You bring all of you –joys and sorrows, strengths and challenges, just as you are. I bring all of me, deep listening, grounded intuition, psychotherapeutic experience and tools. My orientation draws from Western Psychology, mindfulness based body centered psychotherapy, and Wisdom Traditions.